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Background |
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| About Jeff Jansen, sole proprietor of Modest Systems | |
| | Employment History | Education | Affiliations | Professional Development | |
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Employment History
| 1994 to Present | Proprietor, Modest Systems,
Portland, OR
Sole Proprietor of a consulting firm offering technical communications services and specializing in software documentation (printed and online) and Web sites. |
| 1990 to 1996 | Commercial Program Consultant,
PECI, Portland, OR
Consultant to electric utilities and government agencies in
designing programs, procedures, and analysis tools to increase the
energy-efficiency of commercial buildings. |
| 1988 to 1990 | Architect, Commercial
Technology Section, Bonneville Power Administration, Portland,
OR
Acted as assistant project manager and provided technical direction and oversight for Bonneville's Energy Edge Project. |
| 1979 to 1988 | Architect, Tennessee Valley
Authority, Knoxville and Chattanooga, TN
Provided energy services and analysis tools to the building-design community through a variety of programs aimed at energy efficiency in commercial buildings. Designed, wrote, documented, maintained, distributed and supported energy-related microcomputer programs. |
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Education
Master of Environmental Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, cum laude, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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Affiliations
Jeff Jansen has been a member of the Willamette Valley Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication since 1994. He is currently chapter Treasurer, was a best-of-show judge for the chapter's 2001 competition, served as a judge for the chapter's 1996 and 2000 competitions, and is a former comanager of the chapter's Contractors' Special Interest Group.
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Professional Development
- Tenth Annual WinWriters Online Help, Seattle, WA, February 11-13, 2002.
- Society for Technical Communication Region 7 Conference, Portland, OR, October 2001
- Sixth Annual WinWriters Online Help, Seattle, WA, February 8-11, 1998. Including preconference workshops on Usability Testing and Indexing.
- Society for Technical Communication, Willamette Valley Chapter. Frequently attend the monthly meetings of the Online SIG (Special Interest Group) and the Contractors' SIG.
- WinHelp 97 Conference, Seattle, WA, February 9-12, 1997.
- Society for Technical Communication Region 7 Conference, Portland, OR, October 1995
- Introduction to Programming for Windows with Visual Basic, Microsoft Corp., 1993.
- Regional Conference on Building Commissioning, Seattle, WA, November 1995.
- National New Construction Programs for Demand-Side-Management Conference, Boston MA, March 1995; and October 1993
- Annual Meeting of the Association of Energy Services Professionals, Orlando FL, December 1994.
- Second National Conference on Building Commissioning, St. Petersburg Beach FL, May 1994.
- ACEEE Summer Study on Energy-Efficient Buildings, Asilomar CA, 1992 and 1990.
- National Conference on Microcomputer Applications in Conservation and Renewable Energy, Tucson AZ, October 1986.
- Energy
An Integrated Approach (A Conference on Planning,
Design, and Marketing of Commercial and Institutional Buildings),
Chattanooga TN, May 1985 and May 1986. - Building Energy Simulation Conference, Seattle WA, August 1985.
- Life-Cycle Costing for Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy in Federal and Municipal Buildings, NBS Workshop, Chattanooga TN, July 1985.
- HVAC Controls and Modeling Simulation, Workshop, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, February 1984.
- American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Biannual Conferences, several
- American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and its Passive Division, numerous annual meetings.
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